Car-seat



CAR SEAT.

APPUCATION FILED DEC- I0, 1919.

1,364,756. Patentad Jan. 4, 1921.

2 SHEETSSHEET l- G. E. HENRY.

CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10, I9l9. 1,364,756. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. HENRY, OF IBELLMORE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. G. BRILL COM- IPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-SEAT.

Application filed December 10, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. HENRY, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, (the said HENRY having declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States,) and a resident of Bellmore, Long Island, Nassau county, New York, have invented certain Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide a seat at each end of a car, which can be used by the motorman, when necessary, and when not used by the motorman can be occupied by passengers.

A further object of the invention is to de sign the car seat so that the seat section can be raised when the seat is to be used by the motorman and lowered when the back is shifted and it is to be used by passengers.

In the accompanyin drawings:

Figure 1 is an end v1ew of a car seat illustrating my invention;

Fig. 2 1s a front view, showing the back of the seat section broken away;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view, showing the seat section in the lower position;

ig. 4 is a similar view, showing the seat section raised;

Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view on the line 5-5, Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6, Fig. 3;

Fig. 7 is a erspective view illustrating a detail of the invention; and

Fig. 8 is a die rammatic plan view of a car showing the ocation of the seats.

1 is a portion of the fixed frame of a car on which is a bracket 2, supporting one end of the car seat structure. 3 is a pedestal supporting the other end of the seat structure. This pedestal has an end section 4 inclosing the mechanism for raising and lowering the car seat. 5, 5 are two shafts, which extend from one side frame 4 to the other side frame 6, and have their bearings in said frames. These two shafts are attached to two links 7, 7 connected to pivots 8 on a back section 9. This back section can be turned from one side of the seat section to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 4, 1921.

Serial No. 343,694.

the other in the ordinary manner, when it is desired to reverse the seat.

10 is the seat section. Attached to this seat section are two sliding members 11, one at each end of the seat section. These members are adapted to guides 12 in the structures 4 and 6 and a cross bar 13 extends from one side member 14 of the structure 11 to the other, being in position to be acted upon by cams 15 rigidly secured to the two shafts 5 at each end of the seat structure. These cams are so shaped that when the back section is moved to the position shown in Fig. 1, the seat section is raised and can be used by the motorman, the back section 9 of the seat preventing its use by a passenger. hen the motorman drives the car from the opposite end, then the seat, here tofore occupied by him, is adjusted by moving the back 9 and lowering the seat section, as shown in Fig. 3, to the normal level of a car seat, so that it can be used with ease by passengers.

The structures 11 are rigidly secured to the under side of the seat section 10 by bolts, or other fastenings, and the vertical members 14 are beveled at each end so as to fit the slideway in the fixed portion of the seat structure, making the seat rigid when raised or lowered.

Thus, it will be seen by the above construction that a car can be provided with seats at each end, thereby increasing the seating capacity, as well as the comfort of the passengers.

I claim:

1. The combination in a car seat, of a fixed body portion having slideways at each end; a seat section having structures secured to its ends and adapted to slide in the ways in the body portion; a back section capable of being moved from one side of the seat to the other; and means, actuated by the back, for raising the seat in its side guides when the back is shifted to one side and lowered when the back is shifted to the opposite side.

2. The combination in a car seat, of two parallel shafts mounted in bearings in the fixed portion; a slideway at each end of the fixed portion, said slideway having beveled sides; a seat section having depending structures secured thereto and shaped to conform to the slideways, each structure having a (Poe's bar; two cams on each shaft adapted to bear upon the cross bare of the seat structures; a seat back; links connecting the seat back to the shafts, said back being capable of being moved to either side of the seat 10 structure, the parts being so arranged that when the back is moved to one side the seat will be raised and, when moved to the opposite side, the seat will be lowered.

GEORGE E. HENRY. 

